Maker Faire 2007: photos, photos, photos!

by Luigi Anzivino

(For a more leisurely stroll through photos, check out my flickr set.)

As Ryan said, Maker Faire was extraordinary. The ExplOratorium booth was a mixture of high and low tech wonders, simple ideas spun out into marvelous directions. Charles’s fogpool was eerie and magical; the concept if fairly simple: fog is swirled and a green laser visualizes the swirls and turbulence within. However, the exhibit was, I understand, technically challenging to make.

On the other end of the spectrum, there was a homemade battery prayer wheel, which was technically primitive, but because of that had an equally mesmerizing effect.

Thanks Sarah for the pictures! They are cool, I’m glad you caught the robot battles, because I completely missed them. And I must agree with you that the disgusting spectacle was kinda lame. I mean, for such a huge production, I was expecting a little more than a human-sized hamster wheel… My favorite thing to do was riding the modified bicycles around!